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Speculative attacks and currency crises: The Mexican experience

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  • Inci Ötker
  • Ceyla Pazarbaşioĝlu

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By using data from the Mexican economy, this paper estimates a speculative attack model of currency crises in order to identify the role of macroeconomic fundamentals and early warning signals of a potential currency crisis. A deterioration in fundamentals appears to generate high one-step-ahead probabilities for the observed regime changes during the sample period 1982–1994. Particularly, foreign reserve losses, expansionary output, monetary and fiscal policies, an increase in inflation differentials and the share of short-term foreign currency-indexed debt, and an appreciation of the real exchange rate appear to have contributed to the speculative pressures and the associated regime changes. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1996

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  • Inci Ötker & Ceyla Pazarbaşioĝlu, 1996. "Speculative attacks and currency crises: The Mexican experience," Open Economies Review, Springer, vol. 7(1), pages 535-552, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:openec:v:7:y:1996:i:1:p:535-552
    DOI: 10.1007/BF01886212
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    Exchange rates; speculative attacks; economic fundamentals; Mexico; B22; S31; F33;
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    • B22 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Macroeconomics
    • F33 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions

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